AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Wall Street Journal
Civil servant Mark Thompson wants to turn the British Broadcasting Corp. into an empire on which the sun never sets.
To do that, the BBC’s 50-year-old chief executive is determined to get the world to watch more British drama, comedy and news online. His push has required radical job cuts and new business strategies [...]

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The PBS Foundation and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced an award of $1 million to the PBS Foundation from the Adobe Foundation Fund at Silicon Valley Community Foundation. The grant, part of the Adobe Youth Voices global philanthropy initiative, will establish PBS’s Adobe Youth Voices Venture Fund and support PBS Foundation operations.
Through the venture [...]

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PBS Idealab blog
MTV, as part of its Emmy-winning “Choose or Lose” campaign (www.ChooseorLose.com), today unveiled “Street Team ‘08″: a specially recruited group of 51 citizen journalists - one from every state and Washington, D.C. - who will cover the 2008 elections from a youth perspective and tailor their reports for mobile devices. The members will [...]

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